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them and the Faculty of Medicine of Columbia College. The trustees f 

 Columbia College accordingly, soon after, annulled their statutes which author- 

 ized the connexion of a medical school with their institution, and the regents -of 

 the University, in March, 1814, confirmed the agreement which had beeu 

 entered into between the College cf Physicians and Surgeons, and the Medical 

 Faculty of Columbia College. 



Ample courses of instruction, on the following branches of science, are now 

 provided by the state medical school of this city : anatomy, physiology, end 

 surgery ; theory and practice of physic and clinical medicine; ckymistry ; prin 

 tiples and practice of surgery ; clniical medicine. maleria medico ; midwifery, 

 and the diseases of women and children ; medical jitrisprudence ; natural Mf 

 tory ; nnttiral philosophy. 



The legislature of this state, with the wonted liberality they have uniformly 

 manifested for the promotion of useful knowledge, at their last session authorized 

 the raising of the further sum of thirty thousand dollars to be applied to th 

 purposes of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of this city. It is not 

 deemed necessary here to recount the great advantages which the city cf New~ 

 York possesses for a great medical establishment. With a population equal tw 

 that of most of the capitals of Europe, and composed of inhabitants from all parts 

 of the world: with a large and well-endowed hospital, and other public charl 

 ties -. its botanic garden ; its weU organized medical school ; the extensive sys- 

 tem of education which it embraces ; and its learned and able teachers, induce 

 the belief that the College of Physicians and Surgeons is second to no ffiedical 

 .establishment in the United States; and in their choice of such a place ibr the 

 special cultivation of medicine, the regents of the university have manifested 

 the wisdom of their heads, and the excellence of their hearts. For further 

 particulars relative to the progress of medicine in tliis state, see Middleton't 

 Medical Discourse, Bard's Address, Historical Sketch of the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, iu Amer. Med. and Phil. Register, and other paiig of 

 the same work ; Hosack's Account of the Med. Schools of Nerv-York ant/. 

 Philadelphia; Syllabus of the several Courses of Lectures delivered in ih* 

 Col. of Phys. and ,Surg. N. Y. 1814; Reports of the Regents of &? U-, 

 \crsitv. 



NOTE 5. 



The Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts has published three vo 

 of its transactions at the expense of the state, containing a great body of usefei 

 oforwation, relative to the husbandry and maaufactures of the country TUc 



